Janelle Gramling: Collected Works

Janelle Gramling: Collected Works

Solo exhibition of Janelle Gramling combining functional ceramics and sacred geometry with a handmade aesthetic that allows a human touch to give these objects a new meaning.

Inspired by raw natural materials and traditional techniques, Janelle Gramling’s work touches on themes of personal symbolism and sacred geometry with a modern, minimal, and playful aesthetic. Combining fiber, found object, and ceramics Gramling applies a handmade approach to give her sculptures, home decor, and wearable adornments an air of down-to- earth spirituality.

Janelle Gramling: Collected Works features a collection of new sculptural wall-hangings, functional ceramics, and wearable decoration. Taking inspiration from patterns and nature and studying Sacred Geometry, Gramling creates forms that are mathematical and perfect in concept, but become flawed, natural, and human when brought to life in real materials. Shapes are slightly imperfect. Surfaces bear blemishes and fingerprints. To drive this home, Gramling chooses materials that feel familiar and close to their natural origin; stoneware clay, found driftwood, and natural fibers colored with plant-based dyes. Themes of ecology, balance, and interconnectedness speak through the ways in which strands of fiber weave their way through geometric forms in clay and wrap around branches of found driftwood.


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